�He
who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past,
controls the future.� --George Orwell

I
am not a Mitt Romney supporter. Let me make that clear up front. And
this is not a debate about whether or not Mormons are Christians.
But it certainly was refreshing to hear a politician make a stand
for Christianity. Most of them spend their time apologizing for �their
faith,� assuring us that it would �never influence� their decisions.
Why would we want a President whose core values didn�t affect his
decisions?

We
all have core values, things we believe are important, and they do
influence our lives. For some reason we have been convinced that standing
up for what you believe is �hateful,� �bigoted,� and �judgmental.�
For too long we have watched our �politicians� say things they obviously
didn�t believe. President Bush claims Christians and Muslims worship
the same God. Could anything be more blasphemous than that? Many
of his decisions have made me question his "core values."

That�s
what political correctness has done to us. It has taught
us to lie. It has taught us to believe others are lying. It has
taught us to accept lying as a way of life. There are plenty of liars
today but I am most concerned about those who lie about the truth.
That is where �Mitt gits it.� They have been lying to us about American
history and they are doing it today in our schools. At least he has
the courage to point it out.

You
do know that don�t you? The phrase �separation between the church
and state� appears nowhere in any of our founding documents. It is
neither in the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution. It
is however, in the Humanist
Manifesto and the Russian
Constitution. It was a major plank in the Communist
Manifesto. But it is not now, nor has it ever been an American
ideal. Why don't more of our leaders know that?

"Blessed
is the Nation Whose God is the Lord" Psalm 33:12. America thrived
when we placed the Lord in His rightful place. Can you deny that today
we are a nation in decline? Only a return to Christianity can save
this nation. Without it we will become a �proverb
and a byward among all of the nations.� Christian men founded
this nation, not Secularists. America must return to her Christian
roots. Our Founding Fathers were not Muslim. They were not Buddhists,
Hindus, or atheists. They
were Christians. Here is what they said.

�Having
undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian
faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the
first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents
solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another,
covenant and combine our selves together�� ---Mayflower Compact
1620

The
general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were
the general principals of Christianity� I will avow that I believed
and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are
as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.�
---John Adams

We
have no government armed with power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge,
or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution
as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for
a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government
of any other." --- John Adams

�Why
is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your
most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth
of July]?" �Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday
of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?
That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation?
Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized
the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon
earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first
precepts of Christianity"? ---John Quincy Adams

"
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they
therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality
is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals,
the best security for the duration of free governments." ---Charles
Carroll---signer of the Declaration of Independence.

"For
my own part, I sincerely esteem it [the Constitution] a system
which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested
and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests." ---Alexander
Hamilton

�Providence
has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the
duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation
to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.� And this �Whether
our religion permits Christians to vote for infidel rulers is
a question which merits more consideration than it seems yet to have
generally received either from the clergy or the laity. It appears
to me that what the prophet said to Jehoshaphat about his attachment
to Ahab ["Shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate
the Lord? (2 Chronicles 19:2) affords a salutary lesson.�---John
Jay---Former Supreme Court Justice

�God
who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation
be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction
in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from
God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that
His justice cannot sleep forever.� ---Thomas Jefferson.

�We
have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the
power of government, far from it. We�ve staked the future of all our
political institutions upon our capacity�to sustain ourselves according
to the Ten Commandments of God.� --- James Madison �The Father
of the Constitution.�

"To
the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom,
and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. . . .
Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present
republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from
them, must fall with them." ---Jedediah Morse, Signer of the Declaration.

"Let
the children who are sent to those schools be taught to read and write
and above all, let both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles
and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential
part of education� ---Benjamin Rush

Let
it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers
just men who will rule in the fear of God [Exodus 18:21]. . . . If
the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office,
the government will soon be corrupted . . . If our government fails
to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the
citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and
administer the laws.� --Noah Webster

At
the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the
plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered
this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah
33:22;
�For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king;
He will save us.�

You
see the secularists don�t want religion removed from government. They
just want Christianity removed. They want THEIR religion taught. Our
founders would be astounded.

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"[F]or
avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground
of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion
is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible
support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the
precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God." ---Gouverneur
Morris

America
was founded on Biblical precepts.

At
least Mitt gits it. What�s wrong with the rest of us? How long will
we believe a lie?

Coach Dave Daubenmire, founder and President
of Pass The Salt Ministries www.ptsalt.com
and Minutemen United www.minutemenunited.org,
is host of the high octane Pass The Salt radio show heard in Columbus,
Ohio.

In 1999 Coach Daubenmire was sued by the ACLU
for praying with his teams while coaching high school in Ohio. He now
spends his energy fighting for Christian principles in the public domain.